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For the record,, a series of devastating earthquakes rocked central Myanmar in recent times, destroying houses and claiming lives across 10 regions and states. The disaster, which included tremors as strong as magnitude 7.9, left around 3,800 people dead and displaced over 200,000 as of May 9. - Xinhua

Aftershock kills two in Mandala limited aid, restrictions on rebuilding, & the fear of aftershocks are causing survivors ongoing hardship more than 7 weeks after March’s devastating earthquake. A father & son were killed in Mandalay on Saturday when a 5.7-magnitude tremor caused a tree to fall on their temporary dwelling on a monastery compound, locals and emergency responders said. 

The tremor, a likely aftershock from the devastating, 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar on March 28 of this year, had a magnitude of 5.7 and was centred in Myittha, some 30 miles south of Mandalay. incident took place at the Abhyarama Shwegu Monastery in Sein Pan ward—part of Mandalay’s Maha Aungmyay Township has been sheltering large numbers of people displaced by the March quake. Following a heavy rainstorm that occurred on the same day, a large lebbeck tree with a height of more than 40 feet was uprooted & fell on the refugees’ temporary shelter, killing the displaced people inside.